What Huckabee misses:
The Fair Tax does away with the IRS, but it has to have another bureaucracy to collect and to distribute those monthly checks.
“The Fair Tax does away with the IRS, but it has to have another bureaucracy to collect and to distribute those monthly checks.”
Sales taxes do not require a bureaucracy anywhere near as oppressive as the IRS.
Hunter supported the FairTax as well.
Not only that, but all of the elderly and retired folks who poured all of their money into taxes of one sort or another all of their lives,and figure they’ve paid their dues, so now when older you once again get hit up with 30% fair taxes, which won’t be so fair. There you are now, retired, and all of a sudden you are paying for everything with an enormous tax on it. It’s kind of like double taxation in life. I don’t think I like the idea of a fair tax as I don’t think it’s fair. Plus, what’s to stop the gov’t from installing a fair tax and then at a later point start up again on other taxes above and beyond the fair tax, which is basically just like the EU’s value added tax.
You don't need a Constitutional amendment to enact a Fair Tax but you need one to get rid of the income tax officially. Otherwise we end up with two taxes. The Fair Tax is a scam for the carnival barker Huckabee to hoodwink the stupid carnival attendees to come into the tent.